"Joerg" wrote in message
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On 2018-02-08 14:05, Ian Field wrote:


"Joerg" wrote in message
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On 2018-02-06 18:56, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 2/6/2018 1:52 PM, sms wrote:
My wife's Lezyne Deca 1500XXL stopped taking a charge, at all. Taking
it apart, I saw that the batteries were made in July 2015. Not too
good for it to stop working that soon.

Some of my bikes have dynamos that are 30 years old. They just keep
going and going and going...


Until you get to a red traffic light, to a stop sign or into a traffic
jam. The perfect spot at night to get hit by a car driver who didn't
see you because you were on the only unlit vehicle around.

AFAIK: dynamo lighting is illegal in the UK for exactly that reason.


All it takes is you standing in the left turn lane and some soused guy in
a hurry cutting across that area, seeing you about one second before
impact. Of course, Frank won't understand that but luckily your lawmakers
did.

UK car drivers seem to be wary of unlit cyclists and give them a wide berth.

I used to joke that bicycle lights were magic charms to ward off evil car
drivers - now i joke that they're target indicators for car drivers.